Life without physics - Plants as air purifiers

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OMG, I am alone, it's rainy out, and the wife is having fun with the grandkid

This is very low-res to avoid AI's.  He has just become an expert at peeling, but the 'tax' is most of the orange, and he'll give you a piece.  Everybody wants him to be the official peeler, but that fee is a killer.

Anyway, the irony of plants removing floating organic chemicals (VOC's) is that they put out a ton.  They have to for the mechanism of water transport to work.  These guys have 'tested' their plants, but you cannot measure anything for proof.  A fine implementation of magic.

I especially like how they expose the roots to air.  You can't have air circulation or the roots pinch off.  Smelly factors like giant composters force air through old, dead tree roots.  That works for a while, but they saturate quickly.  You can do the same with activated charcoal, but again, it runs out so fast as to be useless.

I have UVA light on titania foam.  That produces a ton of OH- radicals which are what you get with sunlight on wet white sheets and rain storms.  You can tell the difference by turning it off.  Then you get a mustier smell.  Fine VOC's.  The hard part is finding a cheap UVA light that lasts for its full 10,000 hours.  You check that with a uv detection card.  Anyway, this is just physics.  As the article says -- there's no proof, but you can feel better that it might be doing something.  Magic rules the Universe!